Oddbean new post about login | logout I've just tried out www.ivpn.net ... paid with LN, chose my location and time frame and checkout was btcpay. Got a wireguard config and immediately works. (Well done mullvad for losing another customer because you can't be bothered to offer LN!) #vpn #lightning
I used lnvpn recently. Very similar experience, very cool. Can even rent it for just an hour!
https://vpn.sovereign.engineering/
I used the onion site http://soveng42aj6ynynkqeyut2dwnmwou45epfpuwvjy2t45fpxn3dk2ymad.onion/ and worked fine 👌 It sucks that Mullvad doesn't have official LN support but luckily this site works great!
cc @Mullvad VPN feature request it seems...
@Mullvad VPN disregarded customers asking to pay mullvad feedback 🤷♂️ https://github.com/mullvad/mullvadvpn-app/issues/4435
From the issue: > Supporting Lightning as a payment option is in the backlog for the team managing payment methods. But I can't give any ETA for when that might be available. They then point out it's the wrong repo to ask this. > For all non-app related questions and feature requests, please contact support@mullvad.net. Sounds like cajoling support is the only way :-) From a privacy point of view, in a world infested with chain anal companies, not supporting lightning is problematic.
Yup. Never heard back from the payments team. Will bug them again.
@provoost if you’d like to show support for LN on @Mullvad VPN today I found out their new email is support@mullvadvpn.net
I laud the constructiveness, but it's often better to just vote with your feet, if people show they're not interested in offering the service you want. (It's a bit of a side issue, but also, vpns are a bit of a strange case where network effects are negative beyond a certain (low) threshold; mullvad got a bit too popular for me to really be motivated to use them any more.) I'm only an occasional user of vpns anyway so definitely a ymmv situation.
that sounds fantastic, considering switching as well
which reminds me, i recently discovered https://bitcoin-vps.com/ which maintains a huge list of bitcoin-accepting VPS hosters, and they list which ones take lightning and have self-hosted payment processing (so no bitpay or coinbase KYC nonsense), very useful